Question follow-through · 45333
Recycling: Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Simpler recycling: workplace recycling in England, published on 29 November 2024, whether (a) waste collection businesses, (b) loca
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Simpler recycling: workplace recycling in England, published on 29 November 2024, whether (a) waste collection businesses, (b) loca
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) is the regulator for Simpler Recycling for Non-Household waste and are committed to supporting businesses – both waste producers and collectors – in understanding their duties. As a Regulator they are required to have regard to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Cats: Animal Breeding
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Highly Protected Marine Areas
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase the number of highly protected marine areas in English waters.
Marine Protected Areas
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ban bottom trawling within more English Marine Protected Areas.
Beverage Containers: Recycling
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether beverage industry manufacturers will be required to pay the Extended Producer Responsibility levy if they sell their products in the on-trade market with proof from the vendor
Beverage Containers: Recycling
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a UK-based beverage manufacturer can accept returns of all recyclable product packaging to offset their Extended Producer Responsibility levy.
Beverage Containers: Recycling
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce a requirement for tethered caps on drinks before 2029.
Packaging: Recycling
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to review extended producer responsibility fees.
Packaging: Recycling
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the (a) Extended Producer Responsibility and (b) Deposit Return Scheme thresholds for beverage manufacturers are applied (i) per-brand and (ii) according to the size of the par
Glass: Deposit Return Schemes
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to include glass in the deposit return scheme from 2027.
Plastics and Metals: Recycling
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review the inclusion of (a) plastic containers and (b) metal cans in the extended producer responsibility scheme following the rollout of the deposit return scheme
Beverage Containers: Deposit Return Schemes
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that UK Deposit Management Organisation Ltd includes representation from (a) small businesses and (b) the wider beverage industry.